5. Shawn Michaels
The greatest pro wrestler of all time - Shawn Michaels is also one of the biggest egomaniacs of all time. He showed his early supreme self-confidence when first coming in with the WWF in 1987, getting fired just two weeks later for a drinking incident. Far from keeping his head down and keeping out of trouble, Michaels initial years saw him drinking and partying as if he thought he was Ric Flair. Upon returning to the WWF a year later, the ego would continue to develop and show off. HBK showed no shyness in acting like a big shot, and admits he got over quick because he demanded it - "I would just walk past all the old timers queuing to see Vince and knock on the door." Vince liked the confident and creative star, who was also standing out as a superb athlete and worker, and he got what he wanted. The ego got bigger: Michaels admits in his autobiography that he was a horrible individual, on one occasion writing "dyke" on the back of a fan's jacket who had been waiting to get his autograph for hours. He also only cared about himself - in 1997 the ego was at its most intense and pushed HBK to refuse to put anyone over to Vince McMahon. Michaels had decided he would not job to anybody, and Vince didn't really have much he could do, he needed Shawn because most of his major talent was jumping to WCW. He had also created a monster; boosting Michaels ego almost constantly, to the point where he was allowed to refuse to drop the WWF title to Bret Hart at Wrestlemania 13, instead dropping the belt to nobody on Raw, going home and saying "I've lost my smile". A year after the "losing my smile" incident, Shawn would suffer a back injury which put him on the shelf. In this time, Shawn found God and changed his ways, and upon returning to WWE in 2002, he was a new man; he put talent over; he only held the championship for one month in his eight years back. Shawn righted his wrongs - but through the 90's was an absolute horror of an ego.